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My biggest catch is Typhon in the desert in Morocco....recorded by Hesiod and Appolodorus. I have a vid on my Channel about him. "[1.6.3] When the gods had overcome the giants, Earth, still more enraged, had intercourse with Tartarus and brought forth Typhon in Cilicia,95 a hybrid between man and beast. In size and strength he surpassed all the offspring of Earth. As far as the thighs he was of human shape and of such prodigious bulk that he out-topped all the mountains, and his head often brushed the stars." The vid is called "The Truth about Dragons and Giant Serpents Far Exceeds the Myths". Thank you.
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The segment of Penza and the quadrant's size are based on the outdated belief that the mosasaurus possessed a 1:10 skull to body length ratio, based off of tylosaurus, but a 2014 study, along with finding the mosasaurus to be more robust than previously believed, reevaluated this down to a 1:7 ratio, although the ratio is now believed to be around 1:7.4. Penza under these ratios, would be around 12.5 metres long and 10.3 tonnes, while the quadrant, after a gdi analysis by faedino, would measure 14.5 metres and 15.9 tonnes. Also, the paper did confirm tylosaurus have the 1:10 skull to body ratio, and a specimen called bunker was estimated at 17 metres and a mass of over 17 tonnes, again from a gdi from faedino, although this mass estimate is still a work in progress. (I think)
I love coming across channels like this that dive deep into prehistoric life and ecology while still making everything engaging to watch. Awesome content dude.
lol. Actually, River is in the meaning of the Mosasaurus' name, and Moses means: "[She] brought [him] out of the water". So Moses and the Mosasaur might have similar linguistic origins in the meanings of their name
@@twinturboray This is correct, I live next to the Maas in Maastricht and this is also the place where Mosa saurus skeletons are found now and then. We have one displayed in the local museum. My dad was part of the crew that found it.
Curiously, just a few hundred yards behind the Mosasaurus skeleton were found the remains of a whole school of Egyptosaurs. Seems they'd been caught in some kind of marine disaster.
its CRIMINAL how underrated giant icthyosaurus are theres at least a couple other ones getting to that size or slightly bigger they are at what seems to be the upper limit for raptorial sea predators, only thing larger are the largest filter feeding whales
What about Cretaceous Pliosaurs such as Sachichasaurus or Monquiasaurus? They were similar in length (probably a bit shorter), but way bulkier than any mosasaur. And btw, Mosasaurs didn't rule during the entire Cretaceous, instead, they dominated the oceans during the last 20 million years of the cretaceous. Nevertheless, great video
@@elmochomo8218 I'm very sorry if I expressed myself wrong, but English is not my native language. I just wanted to point out a couple of mistakes made in this video.😕
We know dinosaurs from their genus names only. Animals living today although we know them by their common names, have hard to remember genus and sub genus names too. The African Elephant is named Loxodonta and the European Rabbits are called Oryctolagus
That’s the problem. Most extinct prehistoric animals, especially dinosaurs, aren’t given common names. Although there are a few select extinct mammals that are more known by their common name given to them than their scientific name (like saber toothed tigers, wooly mammoths, and dodo birds).
@@boomerixThat’s not a common name. That’s just an abbreviation of their genus name. So no, you are wrong, you can’t argue that, unless you want to look dumb.
@@greekfire7980 They may be based on the long genus names, but are the every day use version where most people know what is meant. The other way around, the species name "Canis familiaris" for example is just "Family dog" in Latin. The genus "Canis" literally just means Dog. So by your logic "Dog" is also "just the genus name".
It's terrifying to think of a Monitor the size of a Mosasaurus, i used to have a Nile Monitor back in my early 20's that I took from a friend who wanted to get rid of it, it was maybe 2 feet long with it's tail and mean as hell, handling it was not fun
I was given a 5 foot Nile monitor, wicked creature! If it got out, I had to throw a blanket over it. Not only did it have a vicious bite, but it would whip you with the tail!
**a platycarpus crashes into Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc** Doofenshmirtz: A platycarpus? **platycarpus puts on a fedora** Doofenschmirtz: Perry the Platycarpus?!
That's artwork from Gaelle Seguillon, one of the artist in Prehistoric Planet project. That art piece was used as the concept for the _Mosasaurus_ spa scene in episode 1 season 1 of Prehistoric Planet.
The Mosasaurus has been getting a lot of fame recently thanks to Jurassic World and rivals that of the Megalodon and the more I learn about this prehistoric predator of the seas, the more it becomes crucial that we all need to except the fact that the world was full of amazing and equally terrifying animals of the past. Bravo!
Isn't it argued that snakes also evolved from monitor lizards? I believe snakes by then had already lost their feet; Mosasaurus probably evolved directly from monitor lizards and their feet evolved into fins.
This phylogenetic theory has been discredited. Snakes are today believed to be part of a different lineage of lizards (Ophidia) than varanids (anguimorpha). Interestingly, many studies indicate that mosasaurs are within Ophidia and that they represent a sister clade to Serpentes, however this has not been proven.
@@prashantmishra9985 Megalodon ruled after Mosasaurus went extinct. Because Megalodon hadn't yet evolved when Mosasaurus was around. Deinosuchus wasn't a sea animal. It was a river animal.
Anyone else find it funny at 14:25 where hes going through all the scientific names for the other dinosaurs it lived alongside, pronouncing them perfectly and just slips in sand sharks ahhah.
I think my favorite part of your videos, something I never see in other similar channels, is how you cover such a wide array of contemporary species in the area! It paints so much more of a complete and vivid picture of the ecosystem!
To me their closest living relatives are probably monitor lizards, snakes could be a contemporary but the overall body plan of a Mosasaur isn't far from modern day monitors, especially water monitors. Just look at the skulls of both and you can tell they're linked and I wouldn't count out the possibility that Mosasaurs eventually over 65 million years slowly evolved to go back on land and become what would become the likes of Megalania a giant Komodo Dragon and a splinter group retained their water like tendencies to become water monitors like the Asian water monitor lizards today. That's my theory but they were probably the most formidable marine predators of their time and could probably rival most today if the Earth was warmer like it was back then.
Fun fact: there's a lot of debate on if snakes evolved losing their legs on land or in water. So it could easily be that snakes evolved from a mosasaur line directly.
Since we're talking about the largest Cretaceous carnivore wouldn't that be Spinosaurus? Estimates for Spino are larger than T-Rex and Mossasaurus but T-Rex was more bulkier
Last time I heard, Spinosaurus is currently estimated to be longer than T. rex but not as heavy. It sounds similar to how the giant squid is generally considered longer than the colossal squid, but most of the verified evidence suggests colossal squid has the greater maximum weight, due in-part to its bulkier proportions. And since mass is usually the go-to metric for size, that would still make T. rex the record holder for largest land predator. That is, unless some new specimens/studies come out suggesting the Spinosaurus’ maximum size was greater then previously thought.
I think large can be interpreted as being very long or very heavy or both. From what we know in a fight the spinosaurus gets annihilated badly. I think that they would both try to avoid a fight though.
It appears that they might have but were relatively few in numbers and smaller less of the ocean kings and more in the back were they there the entire period? Most likely not but they may have started off as fresh water animals before moving into the sea
Besides your consistently great research and overview, it's refreshing to see sophisticated CGI animations of its speculated appearance and hunting behavior. Forgive me if I missed an included credit, but what's the provenance of the mososaur animations for this episode?
I know this is about mosasaurs, but I lost it at 7:16 seeing Shastasaurus Pacificus. Look at them, they're so round and rotund! Another predator that is friend shaped to perfection. ; w ;
The first Mosasaurus Hoffmannii is currently in France that stole it in 1795 during the French occupation of Holland, it's still there 😁I think we would like to have it back
tylosaurus. P was larger than Mosasaurus. H - most recent estimates for the largest individuals are around 17-19 tons with a higher estimate of 22 tons being possible. By comparison Mosasaurus. H was around 10 tons with 15 being possible but unlikely.
One thing that always cracks me up, every one of these big predator videos is like "it had a unique trick up its sleeve, it bit good" ;D every single one
I really find it incredibly tedious that TRex is constantly flaunted as the supreme predator of all time. Yes, it was an amazing apex predator but there are so many more in prehistory that were just as awesome if not far more so. The marine predators are definitely among those as must be the giant pterosaurs and indeed so many groups both pre and post dinosaur.
Well according the new research the. T. rex deserved his place as the king of land predators. Him being alive when the dinosaurs went extinct also adds to it too.
I personally think you should make a video about the sauropods Seismosaurus, Barosaurus, Argentinosaurus, Patagotitan, Sauroposeidon, and Dreadnoughtus. I would love to see that! i love to find all of the fascinating facts about the prehistoric mysteries.
I love this channel, since that i was a little boy i was obsessed with dinosaur and the origin of the life on Earth, but i never had believed in the Bible.
Never read the bible or any other religious texts my friend. They are all works of man made fiction. Stick to dinosaurs, as this actual scientific fact that predates the bible nonsense by at half a billion years.
Awesome video as always. And something for your consideration: I've found myself skipping over the promo "teaser" and missing content because I thought it was the promo, which came later. I dunno, obviously you know better but I'm not sure about the promo teaser thing :)
I’ve found some estimates for the largest specimens of mosasaurus including fragmentary specimens and they’re absolutely mind blowing by how big the estimates place the specimens at but this isn’t confirmed so I’m not sure if it’s accurate but I’m still gonna share what I saw in the estimate: (I’m only gonna include the top 3) First specimen: CCMGE 10/2469 (Penza specimen): Lower jaw length: 171 cm Total length (min and max): 15.39-17.1 meters Weight (min and max): 19,446.1-26,675 kg Bite force (based on S. Merianae): 104,911.6 newtons Bite force (based on D. Guianensis): 112,080.8 newtons Next specimen: NHMM 603092 (fragmentary specimen + largest of the 3) Lower jaw length: 230 cm Total length (min and max): 20.7-23 meters Weight (min and max): 47,318.1-64,908.2 kg Bite force (based on S. Merianae): 189,795.9 newtons Bite force (based on D. Guianensis): 202,765.7 newtons Last specimen: TSMHN 11252 (fragmentary specimen) Lower jaw length: 202.3 cm Total length (min and max): 18.207-20.23 meters Weight (min and max): 32,198.2-44,167.6 kg Bite force (based on S. Merianae): 146,832.8 newtons Bite force (based on D. Guianensis): 156,866.6 newtons Sooooooo yeah I guess mosasaurus might have actually been comparable to an average Megalodon in both weight and bite force
1:30 I thought extinction was already known of at the time that the first mosasaur was discovered. The dodo had already vanished more than a hundred years prior. My impression was that, since this was before Darwinian Evolution was introduced, almost everybody was a creationist who believed that all animals were brought into existence at the same time as humans. This led to the belief that it was impossible for there to have been species that went through their entire existence without ever encountering or being encountered by humans. Giant marine lizards were *definitely* not something that any human had ever seen or written about, despite the fact that they definitely would have been seen and written about if they existed concurrently with us. The "impossibility" factor wasn't that a species had or could go extinct, but that it existed at a time before humans and therefore threw their entire creation mythology (as well as the religion based on it) into question. We're still seeing the fallout from that whole mess today.
Speaking for myself, I would go further and say that Mosasaurus is my favorite prehistoric marine beast in general. To me, it strikes this uncanny balance between being familiar (like Megalodon, Livyatan, etc.) yet also looking more otherworldly/mythical (like the ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, etc.). Plus, it is not very common to see a top niche in the Mesozoic ruled by an animal so closely related to the smaller animals of our modern age.
And some people think orcas will dominate for some reason as if there isn’t tons of predators that can repel orca pods and feast on calves when they have the chance. Doesn’t mean much when you lose tons of calves each year to predation and the stresses that come from that. It is hell from whatever isn’t adapted to live in it
Mosasaurs did not "rule during the entire cretaceous period", not even close. The very first mosasaurs only show up in the fossil record about midway through the cretaceous, and they aren’t really big apex predators before the last few stages.
Depends on your measurements. Charcaradontasauros, Giganotasaurus, and even Spinosaurus are all examples of terrestrial predators that can be classified as larger than T Rex (some being more compelling arguments than others)
Carnage count for this vid: 0:45 'first blood' 1:44 'Its behind me isn't it ahh death' 2:11 honorable mention 3:07 'bro thought his shell could protect him' 3:43 'Bro done ate chocolate' 6:16 'Where do u think ur going ahh death' 7:25 'blud thought his wings could save him and got caught lacking' 7:54 'too slow grasshopper ahh death' 7:57 'two is better than one ahh death' 8:03 'humans feed monster' 8:19 'leave my family alone ahh death' 8:24 'bros long neck was his downfall' 8:26 'blud done got killed while napping' 8:38 'bro rly thought land was safe' 8:44 'u stole my food ahh death' 8:57 'nah blud got abandoned by his friends' 9:15 'this snack kinda crunchy ahh death' 9:30 'Jeffery Dahmer ahh death' 9:33 'bros opps done took his place as king of the dinos' 10:19 'watch your jet bro, watch your jet! ahh death' 10:37 'You owe me money, that loan you took, its payday ahh death' 10:45 'blud rly thought that since he the lockness monster he safe' 10:48 'RKO' 11:06 'Great white shark king of the ocean I think not ahh death' 11:23 'Not on the first date ahh death' 11:28 'fish school shooting crustacean period edition' 11:34 'blud done got jumped for hogging the O2' 11:47 'gimme that back meat boy ahh death' 12:08 'bro rly thought he looking cute in this pic by walking on land' 12:20 'bro done forgot about skin cancer and died from sunburn' 12:58 'all you can eat buffet ahh death' 14:05 'bro ate chocolate part 7' 14:23 'fetch me theyre souls ahh death' 15:48 'honorable mention' 16:55 'Bro its just a prank'
You’re seriously telling me there was a point in modern human history where we believed no animals could go extinct?! Do you think they just told themselves that to alleviate guilt of wiping out hundreds of species from their overhunting?
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My biggest catch is Typhon in the desert in Morocco....recorded by Hesiod and Appolodorus. I have a vid on my Channel about him. "[1.6.3] When the gods had overcome the giants, Earth, still more enraged, had intercourse with Tartarus and brought forth Typhon in Cilicia,95 a hybrid between man and beast. In size and strength he surpassed all the offspring of Earth. As far as the thighs he was of human shape and of such prodigious bulk that he out-topped all the mountains, and his head often brushed the stars."
The vid is called "The Truth about Dragons and Giant Serpents Far Exceeds the Myths". Thank you.
Why don’t you get to think and make a suggestion creating another TH-cam Videos Shows that’s all about the Extinct Prehistoric Amphicyons (Bear Dogs) on the next Extinct Zoo coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍
The segment of Penza and the quadrant's size are based on the outdated belief that the mosasaurus possessed a 1:10 skull to body length ratio, based off of tylosaurus, but a 2014 study, along with finding the mosasaurus to be more robust than previously believed, reevaluated this down to a 1:7 ratio, although the ratio is now believed to be around 1:7.4. Penza under these ratios, would be around 12.5 metres long and 10.3 tonnes, while the quadrant, after a gdi analysis by faedino, would measure 14.5 metres and 15.9 tonnes. Also, the paper did confirm tylosaurus have the 1:10 skull to body ratio, and a specimen called bunker was estimated at 17 metres and a mass of over 17 tonnes, again from a gdi from faedino, although this mass estimate is still a work in progress. (I think)
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I love coming across channels like this that dive deep into prehistoric life and ecology while still making everything engaging to watch. Awesome content dude.
Yeah very interesting indeed!
I love his videos
yes, I have been hooked since I found his channel like a week ago😂❤
When I was a kid, I used to think that Mosasaurus was named that way because it used to part the waters… like Moses
lol. Actually, River is in the meaning of the Mosasaurus' name, and Moses means: "[She] brought [him] out of the water".
So Moses and the Mosasaur might have similar linguistic origins in the meanings of their name
Fight fight fight!
@@twinturboray RIP
@@twinturboray This is correct, I live next to the Maas in Maastricht and
this is also the place where Mosa saurus skeletons are found now and then.
We have one displayed in the local museum.
My dad was part of the crew that found it.
Curiously, just a few hundred yards behind the Mosasaurus skeleton were found the remains of a whole school of Egyptosaurs. Seems they'd been caught in some kind of marine disaster.
This thing brings a whole new meaning to the line "we're going to need a bigger boat".
We need more teeth.
Terminonatator. "I'll never be back".
"Hasta la vista, brachiosaur."
"Everybody back to the Cretaceous!"
"Consider this a diplodocus."
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their hatchlings."
"Come with me if you want to go extinct."
How are you pronouncing all those names so easily
Practice
When you are spitting Dino names as a full time job it gets easy lol how do you know it didn't take him 1939472 takes to say one of the names lmao
I like how he was rapid firing sea creature latin names flawlessly then just randomly in the middle "sand sharks"
It's ai bot voice
@dylano7242 it's not. What is your proof?
Pretty funny how Stastasaurus is SO BIG that you can fit the entire “not a Cretaceous animal” text right on top of it 😂
I know right? I've never even heard of it before and I've been around paleontology and prehistoric life since I was a little boy.
its CRIMINAL how underrated giant icthyosaurus are
theres at least a couple other ones getting to that size or slightly bigger
they are at what seems to be the upper limit for raptorial sea predators, only thing larger are the largest filter feeding whales
What about Cretaceous Pliosaurs such as Sachichasaurus or Monquiasaurus? They were similar in length (probably a bit shorter), but way bulkier than any mosasaur. And btw, Mosasaurs didn't rule during the entire Cretaceous, instead, they dominated the oceans during the last 20 million years of the cretaceous.
Nevertheless, great video
Akshually😂😂😂
@@maxwelledison03 ☝🤓
What is this lil dude wafflin about
*pushes glasses up on nose "What about..." 😅
@@elmochomo8218 I'm very sorry if I expressed myself wrong, but English is not my native language. I just wanted to point out a couple of mistakes made in this video.😕
I wish dinosaurs had easier names to remember
We know dinosaurs from their genus names only. Animals living today although we know them by their common names, have hard to remember genus and sub genus names too. The African Elephant is named Loxodonta and the European Rabbits are called Oryctolagus
That’s the problem. Most extinct prehistoric animals, especially dinosaurs, aren’t given common names. Although there are a few select extinct mammals that are more known by their common name given to them than their scientific name (like saber toothed tigers, wooly mammoths, and dodo birds).
@@rsuriyop You could argue that through popular media some have gotten a common name. Like for example the T-Rex, the Compy or the Trike.
@@boomerixThat’s not a common name. That’s just an abbreviation of their genus name. So no, you are wrong, you can’t argue that, unless you want to look dumb.
@@greekfire7980 They may be based on the long genus names, but are the every day use version where most people know what is meant.
The other way around, the species name "Canis familiaris" for example is just "Family dog" in Latin. The genus "Canis" literally just means Dog. So by your logic "Dog" is also "just the genus name".
It's terrifying to think of a Monitor the size of a Mosasaurus, i used to have a Nile Monitor back in my early 20's that I took from a friend who wanted to get rid of it, it was maybe 2 feet long with it's tail and mean as hell, handling it was not fun
I was given a 5 foot Nile monitor, wicked creature! If it got out, I had to throw a blanket over it. Not only did it have a vicious bite, but it would whip you with the tail!
Water monitors: precious beans who will attack when stressed
Nile monitors: attack cause always stress/ out for blood.
**a platycarpus crashes into Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc**
Doofenshmirtz: A platycarpus?
**platycarpus puts on a fedora**
Doofenschmirtz: Perry the Platycarpus?!
Love that Caiman Lizard color scheme for the Mosasaur in the thumbnail.
That's artwork from Gaelle Seguillon, one of the artist in Prehistoric Planet project. That art piece was used as the concept for the _Mosasaurus_ spa scene in episode 1 season 1 of Prehistoric Planet.
It's common trait in marine predators
The Mosasaurus has been getting a lot of fame recently thanks to Jurassic World and rivals that of the Megalodon and the more I learn about this prehistoric predator of the seas, the more it becomes crucial that we all need to except the fact that the world was full of amazing and equally terrifying animals of the past. Bravo!
Isn't it argued that snakes also evolved from monitor lizards? I believe snakes by then had already lost their feet; Mosasaurus probably evolved directly from monitor lizards and their feet evolved into fins.
No. They all had a common ancestor but are seperate groups
This phylogenetic theory has been discredited. Snakes are today believed to be part of a different lineage of lizards (Ophidia) than varanids (anguimorpha). Interestingly, many studies indicate that mosasaurs are within Ophidia and that they represent a sister clade to Serpentes, however this has not been proven.
@@42ZaphodB42hey what does Anagenesis mean
T.Rex = giant crocodile chicken
Mosa = giant monitor lizard doing its best shark impersonation
Remember that baby hawk that terrorized Scrat in Ice Age? Imagine that but you're Scrat and the acrorn is your child.
I definetly prefer the new thumbnail! Even though these animals were ferocious, they still were animals which this thumbnail shows really well.
Sharks be like: welp looks like I survived another mass extinction event and still alive today.
Sharks and crocs are the OGs surviving everything nature threw against them 😄 Just perfected design no need to get better
Whales: long, elegant, massive...
Mosasaurs: chonk
Steven Spielberg: My next movie will be called "Mosasaur".
Bruce the shark: You're gonna need a MUCH bigger boat.
@2:11 is the happiest mosa I've ever seen
T Rex ruled the land. Mosasaurus, the seas.
Deinosuchus
And Megalodon
@@prashantmishra9985 Megalodon ruled after Mosasaurus went extinct. Because Megalodon hadn't yet evolved when Mosasaurus was around. Deinosuchus wasn't a sea animal. It was a river animal.
@@prashantmishra9985 Deinosuchus is only around 35 feet long and would get squashed by a Trex
Deinosuchus is 14 tons while t-rex is 11 tons@@MaximumPrime
Anyone else find it funny at 14:25 where hes going through all the scientific names for the other dinosaurs it lived alongside, pronouncing them perfectly and just slips in sand sharks ahhah.
I think my favorite part of your videos, something I never see in other similar channels, is how you cover such a wide array of contemporary species in the area! It paints so much more of a complete and vivid picture of the ecosystem!
Love the long form videos! Excited for more. Also congrats on 100k.
Seeing Nigel Marven made me so happy. I watched Prehistoric Park, Chased by Sea Monsters, and Chased by Dinosaurs so many times as a kid
“Never get out of the boat…never get out of the boat…I got to remember: never get out of the boat,”
Chef
wont help u unless ur boat is at leat 100feet
@@reviolkande6155 always easy to figure which commenters are too young to get the reference ...
@@thehairywoodsman5644 The horror.
@@patricktracy1966 finally somebody gets it
I absolutely love videos of this kind; they help me gain so much new knowledge that I never knew before.
_"There's a fell voice in the sea!"_
_"It's Saurodon!"_
I'm cleaning coffee off of my desk right now. Terminonator is indeed too hilarious for a sip of joe.
Everyone knows Godzilla was the largest....
We found him 2 here in NL
😂Godzilla tended to like to eat Japanese humans who tended to be evil. Had a good brain though. Understood Japanese directors and actors.😂
Only mosterverse fans
What do you mean “was”?
m8 i love how you quote this guy over and over i watched deadliest seas when i was a kid and just seeing it again is making me so happy
15:03 THERE IS NO WAY THAT NAME IS REAL 💀
Just brushed right past the one didn't he..no joke..pretty sure that's what's in loch Ness
ExtinctZoo: you shouldn't go into the water
Cameraman:
Imagine a Deinosuchus and a Mosasaurus getting into a tug of war with a Archelon
15:02 Terminonator had me ROLLING
To me their closest living relatives are probably monitor lizards, snakes could be a contemporary but the overall body plan of a Mosasaur isn't far from modern day monitors, especially water monitors. Just look at the skulls of both and you can tell they're linked and I wouldn't count out the possibility that Mosasaurs eventually over 65 million years slowly evolved to go back on land and become what would become the likes of Megalania a giant Komodo Dragon and a splinter group retained their water like tendencies to become water monitors like the Asian water monitor lizards today.
That's my theory but they were probably the most formidable marine predators of their time and could probably rival most today if the Earth was warmer like it was back then.
Fun fact: there's a lot of debate on if snakes evolved losing their legs on land or in water.
So it could easily be that snakes evolved from a mosasaur line directly.
@@FaeQueenCorysnakes already were losing their legs prior to the mosasaurs established themselves though
I saw shastasaurus at 7:12 and literally said out loud "what the f is that thing!" It looks like someone's scaled up a small ichthyosaur badly
*Tylosaurus proriger left the chat*
Why,was Tylosaurus proriger bigger than Mosasaurus Hoffmanni ?
@@ΠαναγιωτηςΑγγελ yes just a lil bit
@@ΠαναγιωτηςΑγγελ a lil bit
No@@ΠαναγιωτηςΑγγελ
Biggest, most dangerous, yadda yadda yadda. All hail the magical liopleurodon. Nothing trumps magical liopleurodon.
That moment you mix up interspecific with Interspecies lol
0:38 The Mosasaurus didn´t rule. They were just alive. Don´t give the, credit for administrative skills they most likely didn´t have.
ruling has never been limited to administration. historically if you hit the hardest you rule. mosasaurus ruled.
The mosasurus is fascinating!
Since we're talking about the largest Cretaceous carnivore wouldn't that be Spinosaurus? Estimates for Spino are larger than T-Rex and Mossasaurus but T-Rex was more bulkier
Last time I heard, Spinosaurus is currently estimated to be longer than T. rex but not as heavy. It sounds similar to how the giant squid is generally considered longer than the colossal squid, but most of the verified evidence suggests colossal squid has the greater maximum weight, due in-part to its bulkier proportions.
And since mass is usually the go-to metric for size, that would still make T. rex the record holder for largest land predator. That is, unless some new specimens/studies come out suggesting the Spinosaurus’ maximum size was greater then previously thought.
Size is determined by weight not length.
Trex is still heavier than Spinosaurus but not longer
I think large can be interpreted as being very long or very heavy or both. From what we know in a fight the spinosaurus gets annihilated badly. I think that they would both try to avoid a fight though.
The largest lifeform on this planet that we know still currently exists. Amazing when you think about it and how old the Earth is.
Kudos for your naming it’s cohabitors in the latter part of this illuminating presentation. Thanks!
Dude, your videos are blowing up 🎉
Mosasaurs did not live throughout the Cretaceous Period. So far, they've been found only in rocks from the Late Cretaceous Epoch.
It appears that they might have but were relatively few in numbers and smaller less of the ocean kings and more in the back were they there the entire period? Most likely not but they may have started off as fresh water animals before moving into the sea
Besides your consistently great research and overview, it's refreshing to see sophisticated CGI animations of its speculated appearance and hunting behavior.
Forgive me if I missed an included credit, but what's the provenance of the mososaur animations for this episode?
These videos are very well put tohether and are a fun and interesting watch! I love this content, can't wait for more!
I know this is about mosasaurs, but I lost it at 7:16 seeing Shastasaurus Pacificus. Look at them, they're so round and rotund! Another predator that is friend shaped to perfection. ; w ;
You know you're watching a legitimate prehistory channel when they break out the Nigel Marven quotes.
The first Mosasaurus Hoffmannii is currently in France that stole it in 1795 during the French occupation of Holland, it's still there 😁I think we would like to have it back
tylosaurus. P was larger than Mosasaurus. H - most recent estimates for the largest individuals are around 17-19 tons with a higher estimate of 22 tons being possible. By comparison Mosasaurus. H was around 10 tons with 15 being possible but unlikely.
Source ?
Isn’t tylosaur also bulkier?
@@victory8928 The contrary, Tylosaurus was lightly built.
FASCINATING! I was always fascinated by the epoch after the dinosaurs (age of mammals and flightless terror birds!)
One thing that always cracks me up, every one of these big predator videos is like "it had a unique trick up its sleeve, it bit good" ;D every single one
I really find it incredibly tedious that TRex is constantly flaunted as the supreme predator of all time. Yes, it was an amazing apex predator but there are so many more in prehistory that were just as awesome if not far more so. The marine predators are definitely among those as must be the giant pterosaurs and indeed so many groups both pre and post dinosaur.
Supreme predator on land for sure.
T- Rex is as much a pop culture icon as an animal so it gets the hype.
Well according the new research the. T. rex deserved his place as the king of land predators. Him being alive when the dinosaurs went extinct also adds to it too.
I personally think you should make a video about the sauropods Seismosaurus, Barosaurus, Argentinosaurus, Patagotitan, Sauroposeidon, and Dreadnoughtus. I would love to see that! i love to find all of the fascinating facts about the prehistoric mysteries.
Nice video as always. Mike from Prehistoric Magazine
I love this channel, since that i was a little boy i was obsessed with dinosaur and the origin of the life on Earth, but i never had believed in the Bible.
Not really sure what the bible has to do with this topic, but the bible does mention dinosaurs if thats what you were wondering.
@@srobeck77 where the Bible mentions dinosaurs.
Never read the bible or any other religious texts my friend. They are all works of man made fiction.
Stick to dinosaurs, as this actual scientific fact that predates the bible nonsense by at half a billion years.
@@joaopedrobaggio4475 It doesn't. Job mentioned the behemoth which creationists interpret as a dinosaur. To explain dinosaur bones presumably 😊
@mikes5637 read the description. Your reply proves you have only listened to others.
man guys, dont yall too just wish that some of these prehistoric animals stil lived today it would've been so cool
MAAAAN THAT REFERENCE IN THE BEGINING!!
Awesome video as always. And something for your consideration: I've found myself skipping over the promo "teaser" and missing content because I thought it was the promo, which came later. I dunno, obviously you know better but I'm not sure about the promo teaser thing :)
what is blud saying
Technically the largest carnivore ever to exist is the blue whale.
I loved walking with dinosaurs as a kid. I still love it. It’s amazing
Man, who needs Pokemon.
Me
Thanks to the OP for also including the imperial measuring system. Not everyone knows the metric system.
Fishing clash actually looks kind of fun
Terminonatator, I had to pause loool
Very interesting video! Learned a lot of information! Great video 😍
One of the only instances where naming something “saurus” is accurate.
I really enjoy your videos !! Keep it up:) could you consider doing one about deep sea creatures ?
Very interesting information on your channel👍💥🤝
😂 that beginning quote sounds like something my buddy would say, been trying to get him out on a boat forever now.
Love the name Terminonator for a sea monster
14:21 i like how there’s all these prehistoric and scary animals and then sand sharks are kinda just there
I wonder about mosasaur intelligence. Monitors are pretty smart as far as lizards go, who knows what mosasaurs were capable of.
I’ve found some estimates for the largest specimens of mosasaurus including fragmentary specimens and they’re absolutely mind blowing by how big the estimates place the specimens at but this isn’t confirmed so I’m not sure if it’s accurate but I’m still gonna share what I saw in the estimate: (I’m only gonna include the top 3)
First specimen: CCMGE 10/2469 (Penza specimen):
Lower jaw length: 171 cm
Total length (min and max): 15.39-17.1 meters
Weight (min and max): 19,446.1-26,675 kg
Bite force (based on S. Merianae): 104,911.6 newtons
Bite force (based on D. Guianensis): 112,080.8 newtons
Next specimen: NHMM 603092 (fragmentary specimen + largest of the 3)
Lower jaw length: 230 cm
Total length (min and max): 20.7-23 meters
Weight (min and max): 47,318.1-64,908.2 kg
Bite force (based on S. Merianae): 189,795.9 newtons
Bite force (based on D. Guianensis): 202,765.7 newtons
Last specimen: TSMHN 11252 (fragmentary specimen)
Lower jaw length: 202.3 cm
Total length (min and max): 18.207-20.23 meters
Weight (min and max): 32,198.2-44,167.6 kg
Bite force (based on S. Merianae): 146,832.8 newtons
Bite force (based on D. Guianensis): 156,866.6 newtons
Sooooooo yeah I guess mosasaurus might have actually been comparable to an average Megalodon in both weight and bite force
Really happy to see your channel, love your interpretations of extinct animals.
Mario???? 13:07
1:30 I thought extinction was already known of at the time that the first mosasaur was discovered. The dodo had already vanished more than a hundred years prior. My impression was that, since this was before Darwinian Evolution was introduced, almost everybody was a creationist who believed that all animals were brought into existence at the same time as humans. This led to the belief that it was impossible for there to have been species that went through their entire existence without ever encountering or being encountered by humans. Giant marine lizards were *definitely* not something that any human had ever seen or written about, despite the fact that they definitely would have been seen and written about if they existed concurrently with us. The "impossibility" factor wasn't that a species had or could go extinct, but that it existed at a time before humans and therefore threw their entire creation mythology (as well as the religion based on it) into question. We're still seeing the fallout from that whole mess today.
mosasaurus is my favorite marine reptile
its also the most well known marine reptile
thats a cool fact@@S.W-217
Speaking for myself, I would go further and say that Mosasaurus is my favorite prehistoric marine beast in general. To me, it strikes this uncanny balance between being familiar (like Megalodon, Livyatan, etc.) yet also looking more otherworldly/mythical (like the ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, etc.). Plus, it is not very common to see a top niche in the Mesozoic ruled by an animal so closely related to the smaller animals of our modern age.
cool, my favourite prehistoric sea creature is the dunkleosteus :)
It got nerfed down though@@rosenmary5353
Building bases has next to nothing to to with RPG's
Mosasaurs is quite literally the largest lizard ever😂
literally or figuratively?
Triassic Icthiyosaurus: "Lol"
its the largest Lizard??
@@quakethedoombringer they are not lizards. They are primitive zaurognats or last remnants of parareptilia
@@srobeck77 literally, because their squamates(lizards)
In Short.. The waters of the Cretaceous...Was pure HELL... For Humans ..🤔☠️
And some people think orcas will dominate for some reason as if there isn’t tons of predators that can repel orca pods and feast on calves when they have the chance. Doesn’t mean much when you lose tons of calves each year to predation and the stresses that come from that. It is hell from whatever isn’t adapted to live in it
Fun fact-kronosaurus is like mosasaurus twin
Mosasaurs did not "rule during the entire cretaceous period", not even close. The very first mosasaurs only show up in the fossil record about midway through the cretaceous, and they aren’t really big apex predators before the last few stages.
How I’d love to be a fly on the wall during these times,
To see all these animals interact with eachother
So we’re not gonna talk about the terminonator???
This video nonfiction what 💀
💀💀💀
Bro imagine being on a boat in the middle of the ocean & you see this creature emerge… I would literally lose my mind
Dunk is my favorite fish meg is cool but dunk was just insane
T rex was the largest terrestrial carnivore.
Depends on your measurements. Charcaradontasauros, Giganotasaurus, and even Spinosaurus are all examples of terrestrial predators that can be classified as larger than T Rex (some being more compelling arguments than others)
@kelleren4840 The T-Rex was the strongest out of all of them
Carnage count for this vid:
0:45 'first blood'
1:44 'Its behind me isn't it ahh death'
2:11 honorable mention
3:07 'bro thought his shell could protect him'
3:43 'Bro done ate chocolate'
6:16 'Where do u think ur going ahh death'
7:25 'blud thought his wings could save him and got caught lacking'
7:54 'too slow grasshopper ahh death'
7:57 'two is better than one ahh death'
8:03 'humans feed monster'
8:19 'leave my family alone ahh death'
8:24 'bros long neck was his downfall'
8:26 'blud done got killed while napping'
8:38 'bro rly thought land was safe'
8:44 'u stole my food ahh death'
8:57 'nah blud got abandoned by his friends'
9:15 'this snack kinda crunchy ahh death'
9:30 'Jeffery Dahmer ahh death'
9:33 'bros opps done took his place as king of the dinos'
10:19 'watch your jet bro, watch your jet! ahh death'
10:37 'You owe me money, that loan you took, its payday ahh death'
10:45 'blud rly thought that since he the lockness monster he safe'
10:48 'RKO'
11:06 'Great white shark king of the ocean I think not ahh death'
11:23 'Not on the first date ahh death'
11:28 'fish school shooting crustacean period edition'
11:34 'blud done got jumped for hogging the O2'
11:47 'gimme that back meat boy ahh death'
12:08 'bro rly thought he looking cute in this pic by walking on land'
12:20 'bro done forgot about skin cancer and died from sunburn'
12:58 'all you can eat buffet ahh death'
14:05 'bro ate chocolate part 7'
14:23 'fetch me theyre souls ahh death'
15:48 'honorable mention'
16:55 'Bro its just a prank'
I love the deadliest seas show! Its something i love to go back and watch
You’re seriously telling me there was a point in modern human history where we believed no animals could go extinct?! Do you think they just told themselves that to alleviate guilt of wiping out hundreds of species from their overhunting?
14:44 At this point you’re just naming Pokémon
Lol at the scene with the mosasaur swimming with a TRex in it's mouth
Very intriguing and well made Thanks.
Do you tought about publishing your videos on spotify as podcast??
Surprising seeing the first 2 things they thought it was that the Genus didn't become Suchocetus or "Whale-Croc"
In regards to the thumbnail: There were no birds at that time.